Talk:Steller Secondary School

This article was nominated for deletion on 14 September 2017. The result of the discussion was SNOW keep.

Steller Secondary School was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
September 26, 2004	Articles for deletion	Kept
September 25, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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Speaking as a Steller graduate, I'd be interested to see more information included about the history of the school starting with the CASE report, as well as discussion of unique aspects of Steller's academic style, including Independent Studies, Self-Directed Learning Contracts, Open Boats, Intensives, and the seminar program. It might also be nice to include something about Steller's lack of competitive sports and the reasoning behind their exclusion. I'd like to know what the community thinks of including in the article local controversy and past news regarding the school, as well as the school's accomplishments in events such as Model United Nations, DDF, and Poetry Out Loud. Alama 13:20, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Details

We might clarify that Steller has 13(?) faculty members plus whatever the current number of other staff, because I feel that the current listing of "approximately 25 staff members" is somewhat vague and possibly misleading.

Also, it might be good to clarify that students choose their own classes each semester. As it stands now, the description of academics could be interpreted to mean that the student body itself decides which classes will be offered. Alama

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This user attends or attended Steller Secondary School.

There's now a userbox for current and former students of Steller, courtesy of L'Aquatique. This goes on your userpage (see Wikipedia:Userboxes for more information): {{User:L'Aquatique/Userboxes/SSS}}

GA Review

Failed "good article" nomination

Upon its review on September 25, 2007, this good article candidate was quick-failed because it:

had a virtual or complete lack of reliable sources

thus making it ineligible for good article consideration. According to WP:Verifiability, "Material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, must be attributed to a reliable, published source."

This article did not receive a thorough review, and may not meet other parts of the good article criteria. I encourage you to remedy this problem (and any others) and resubmit it for consideration. If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to take it to a GA review. Thank you for your work so far.— Cheers, CP 18:00, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Besides that, there's no information that's gives evidence that this has enough notability to warrant its own article. Ashnard _Talk ^Contribs 18:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

tunnels section

The section on the schools tunnels is rather ridiculous, especially without any resources. I'm deleting the section, if anyone wants to look over it here it is.

There are a number of maintenance tunnels beneath Steller, which run under most of the rooms in the school. The tunnels were sealed in 1995 to prevent students from accessing them. The Anchorage School District has included funding for removal of asbestos from these tunnels in numerous voter bonds, and much of it has been removed over the years. Several unsealed access points are said to still exist, though the school administration affirms that all entrances have been sealed. Although the locations of these entrances have only officially been known to the janitorial staff, it has been a tradition for students to surreptitiously explore the tunnels, usually in their senior year. Students visiting the tunnels over the years are said to have painted several murals on the walls, and there are rumors of a time capsule having been left in the 1980s. Students caught visiting the tunnels have been subject to severe disciplinary action, up to and including expulsion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.112.197.87 (talk) 05:50, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As a current Steller student, I do know about the tunnels, but not if they are real or not. They are more of a legend, though some current students have claimed to have been down their, shortly before the supposed entrance in the science lab was sealed up. But I don't know of any reliable sources.66.223.145.194 (talk) 02:25, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]